" Hey that fine Captain," I said. "It would have been nice to see Rachelle again but I'm sure we'll meet up later." Captain," said Erin in an urgent t...ne. "We have guests. At least six ships coming up fast." Captain," I called out. "You expecting company." Always," he said with a sigh."Will you be ok?" I asked feeling concern for Rachelle welfare."Captain we are shielded and armoured so we should be ok," said a tired sounding voice. "I would suggest that you get clear or you may take friendly. She didn't like talking to Sheila about her little angel. "He is so respectful. Always helping around the house and waiting for your permission before he does anything." Sheila said looking at Carol."Justin on the other hand", she continued, "is incorrigible. The boy has no discipline. He walks around the house naked, masturbates when he pleases and where he pleases leaving me to clean up after him and slaps me around. These days he won't talk to me without calling me a 'dumb slut' or a. ’"I would add here," Margaret interrupted her narrative, "That although Josiah records in great detail events that occurred in this workhouse, he never mentions his marriage. This is the first of very few references to Alice being married to him. We know she was here when he arrived and became his mistress but for the most part she is just referred to as Alice. Parish church records show he married her on August 30th 1837."‘From the state she was in, I knew beating her would get her to say. The furthest lounge was always deserted, at 2am not even the other nurses ventured so far. So she settled down in a leather sofa with a copy of "Claiming Sleeping Beauty", a set of books she'd missed out on when they were first out. Certainly they would keep her alert through the night if not a little frustrated by the sunrise. The minutes ticked on as she started to lose herself in the fiction, the time marked by the moon moving in the sky through the darkened window, alone in a single pool of.